It’s Thursday, my favorite Thursday (besides my birthday when it falls on a Thursday) is Thanksgiving and I’m feeling a little festive for no real reason other than that it’s finally March and starting to warm up in here Minnesota! I love Thanksgiving and the idea of sharing thankfulness and gratitude, enjoying family traditions, and most importantly, all the delicious food you can eat! I consider green bean casserole a staple in almost all holiday meals, I haven’t – but I could see myself eating it while watching fireworks on the 4th of July.
When I moved out on my own, the first comfort food I wanted (because I couldn’t find my Springfield Cashew Chicken) was homemade green bean casserole! I asked for the recipe, and used it so many times it became its own fixture on my countertop. Greenbeat casserole is almost the idea comfort food, it’s quick and soooo easy to make and has all the flavors of happy family traditions. They say smells trigger the most memories, but I think taste is definitely a close second.
I accidentally baked that original recipe card with the casserole once, it got stuck to the bottom of the pan. I eventually rewrote it on something more legible but I still have that old cooked one, and over 5 years later it still smells like green bean casserole!
When I finally rewrote the recipe I made a couple changes (like more french fried onions! Yum!) and I considered laminating it, but I was afraid that would actually go up in flames if it got put in the oven again accidently so it’s still just a standard paper card. No, no other recipe cards have made their way into any of my ovens since then, lol.
Classic Green Bean Casserole
Ingredients:
2 Cans of Cut green beans, drained 1 Can of Cream of Mushroom condensed soup 1/4 C. of Milk 1 Large container of French fried onions
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 450° Fahrenheit
- In a 9×9 casserole dish mix together the cream of mushroom soup and milk.
- Mix the drained green beans into the soup mixture
- Add in half of the french fried onions and mix to distribute
- Bake for 20 minutes
- Remove pan from oven and top with the remaining onions
- Bake for another 5 minutes, until onions are golden brown
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